Sources for The Chemistry Senior Seminar Course


For Topic Development, Overviews, and Starting Bibliographies :

Macmillan Encyclopedia of Chemistry.  4 vols. Edited by Joseph J. Lagowski.  New York : Macmillan Reference USA, 1997.
    Call#:
Sci Lib REF QD4.M33 1997

Berson, Jerome A.  Chemical Creativity : Ideas from the Work of Woodward, Hückel, Meerwein, and Others.  Weinheim ; New York : Wiley-VCH, 1999.
    Call#: Sci Lib
QD11.B48 1999

Brock, William H.  The Norton History of Chemistry.  New York : W.W. Norton, 1993.
    Call#: Sci Lib
QD11.B76 1993

Chemical sciences in the modern world / edited by Seymour H. Mauskopf.  Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1993.
    Call# : Sci Lib
QD11.C48 1993

Greenberg, Arthur.  The art of chemistry : myths, medicines, and materials.  Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2003.
    Call#: Sci Lib
QD11.G735 2003

Chemical & Engineering News
   
Found in the Periodicals Section in the Science Library, shelved A-Z by title

For a Literature Search or to Find Further Sources

1. Find Review Articles
   
Two of the major sources for review articles are Accounts of Chemical Research and Chemical Reviews.  You can search each of these online.
    To search
Accounts of Chemical Research or Chemical Reviews click on the linked titles.
 

2.  Finding more articles

*ACS Journals Index -
This site indexes all of the ACS journals, many of which we have in the Knox library.  You will not be able to get to the full text from this  site.  You use it to find citations to the articles you need, and then you get them in the Science Library or via Interlibrary Loan.

*ProQuest
This database indexes a number of important Chemistry journals - there is some overlap with the ACS site, but other titles are here as well. Some titles in here are in full text, for others you will have to go to SMC or use ILL.

*Article First via FirstSearch
    Click on Article First in the list
This database indexes even more Chem journals, but it has no abstracts, so all you have to go on is the title. 

* EbscoHost
When Connected, choose "Full Text Journals" - then scroll down and place a check mark next to Health Source : Nursing/Academic and then click the "Continue" button.
This database also indexes a number of Chemistry journals not in the other databases.  A few will be in full text, for others you will have to go to SMC or use ILL

* Chemical Abstracts - For this you need to Set up an appointment with the Chemistry Librarian to search.  The Chemical Abstracts database is the most complete database that indexes Chemistry journals, but it is only available by appointment with the Chemistry Librarian, Sharon Clayton.
Does Knox have the Journal and/or Is it Available Full Text Online?

For Detailed instructiosn click on these links
     http://library.knox.edu/locatingarticles.htm
    http://library.knox.edu/FullText.html

To answer this question you have to do a couple of things.

For Print Holdings :
In some databases, such as Proquest, Article First, and EbscoHost - the database will tell you if Knox has a PRINT subscription to the journal the article is in.

In these cases you just check that, and if so you go to the appropriate periodicals section in the Science Library.  The current year's periodicals are kept on the 1st floor of the Science Library, over by the windows, in alphabetical order by the title of the journal.  The most recent issue is on the slanted shelf, which lifts up to reveal the other recent issues.   For the issues from previous years, you will need to go to the 2nd floor of the Science Library, to your right at the top of the stairs.  This section is also arranged A-Z by journal title.

Other databases, such as the ACS journal index, do not tell you if Knox has a subscription.  For items found in these databases, you must look up the journal title in the Library Catalog.  Use the "Title Alphabetical" search, Click on the title in the list, AND scroll down to check the holdings statement to see if the YEAR you need is there.

For Online Holdings:

Some databases, such as Proquest and EbscoHost, may have full text links that you can click on.  Others, such as the ACS site do not allow access.  And NONE of the databases has links to everything that we have because even those databases with links only link to their own full text. 

So, to check if Knox has a journal online you must search for the Journal title in the "EJournals" list on our website.
    To get to the list pull down the "Quick Links" menu
    Choose "EJournals"
    Type in the journal title or the most unique words from the Journal title - (this is JOURNAL title, not the ARTICLE)
    If it comes up in the list, check the YEARS covered.
    If the year you need is covered, then you can click on the hotlink to the service that provides the online subscription.  Then you will need to search for the specific
    ARTICLE you are looking for.  The best way to do this is with the most unique words from the article title.

Remember, no one database tells you about the holdings in other databases even if they index the same journal.